Jane Ramseyer Miller is in her thirteenth year as Artistic Director for One Voice Mixed Chorus. She holds Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Psychology from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Ramseyer Miller has served as Music Director for several church choirs as well as for TransVoices, Calliope Women’s Chorus, Fierra Voce Femmina, and Voices for Peace – a multi-cultural youth choir. Ramseyer Miller’s compositions are published by Yelton Rhodes Music and Pilgrim Press. She especially enjoys creative arts collaborations and has created choral music with 15-Head Theater Lab, The Women's Cancer Resource Center, Shakopee Women's Correctional Facility, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Kairos Dance Theatre, Mu Daiko, Teens Rock the Mic and District 202 among others.

Philip Everingham, a native of Springfield, Ohio, has collaborated with singers throughout the United States and Austria, specializing in a variety of art song and opera repertoire. He has served as coach/accompanist for various opera companies, including the Fargo/Moorhead Opera productions of Carlyle Floyd’s “Susannah,” Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” and their upcoming production of Bizet’s “Pearl Fishers,” as well as several productions at the University of Minnesota and Opera in the Ozarks.

He just received his Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Minnesota where he researched Finnish composer Yrjö Kilpinen’s songs set to the text of Swedish poet Erik Blomberg. His research took him to Finland in the fall of 2006 to perform a concert series beginning at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with baritone Peter Halverson.

Tom Becker, a native of Minneapolis, is delighted to renew his association with One Voice. He was a One Voice singer in the early days and served as Co-Moderator of the One Voice board and in various other leadership positions from 1988-1994. More recently, he has worked in the business and financial departments at Target as both a corporate trainer and a Business Team Lead in accounts payable. He also worked for CIGNA Companies supervising claims handling and managing facility functions, reporting and data processing. Tom has worked as an office volunteer for Open Arms of Minnesota, the Minnesota Council of Churches Refuges Committee, Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus and several other non-profit organizations.

Before joining One Voice, Scott Chamberlain worked in both public relations and development for the Minnesota Orchestra. He also served as the communications director for the Resource Center of the Americas, a local think tank dedicated to promoting social, economic and political justice in Latin America. Prior to that, he taught Latin American history at the University of Kansas and Spanish at Vanderbilt University; he has also lived in Spain and Costa Rica. An active musician himself, Scott is a member of the Minnesota Chorale and can be heard on their recent CD of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, recorded with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä.

OVation Ensemble Coach Randi Grundahl is very pleased to be working with OVation and has enjoyed singing with this talented group of singers. She is also a choir director at the Visitation School in Mendota Heights and is music directing several shows in Hudson, Wisconsin, and at Macalester College. When she’s not conducting, teaching, or directing, she’s arranging and composing while trying to perform.

Some Photos by Jana Noonan Photography